Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Pedigree Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Swap Remove
• 02 Castor & Pollux Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal Swap Remove
• 03 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice Swap Remove
• 04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy Swap Remove

Four Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.

	01 Pedigree Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Swap Remove	02 Castor & Pollux Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal Swap Remove	03 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice Swap Remove	04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 23.9%	02 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal 31.5%	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice 21.7%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 33.0% Best in this row
02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Lower Is Better Estimated, 6% ash assumed. iEstimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag.	01 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 53% 47.0% as fed	02 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal 41% 36.5% as fed	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice 54% 49.0% as fed	04 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 38% 33.0% as fed Best in this row
03 Named Proteins In The First Five Count of named animal proteins. iThe count matches any named animal word in the opening five ingredients, so it also counts animal fats and flavourings as proteins. It is shown because it is one of the five measured lines, but it is too rough to call a winner on.	01 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 0 of 5	02 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal 3 of 5	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice 1 of 5	04 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy -- No ingredient list on file.
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 5 BHA, BHT, Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5	02 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal None Best in this row	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice None Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy -- No ingredient list on file.
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor None	02 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal None	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice None	04 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy None
Starch, As Fed iEstimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag.	01 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 47.0%	02 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal 36.5%	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice 49.0%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 33.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 325	02 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal 376	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice 370	04 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy --
First Five Ingredients	01 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Whole Grain Corn, Meat and Bone Meal, Soybean Meal, Animal Fat (Preserved with BHA and Citric Acid), Whole Grain Wheat	02 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal Salmon, Whitefish Meal, Organic Oatmeal, Organic Barley, Lamb Meal	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice Lamb Meal, Brown Rice, Brewers Rice, Whole Grain Sorghum, Whole Grain Wheat	04 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy --

Every figure here is the food's own. Protein and carbohydrate are converted to dry matter so foods of different moisture can be set beside each other; starch is estimated from the guaranteed analysis with ash assumed at 6.0%, and the recall record belongs to the manufacturer rather than to the recipe. Two rows are printed but never marked: the named-protein count, because the detection behind it is too rough to call a winner on, and calories, because neither more nor fewer is better without knowing the dog.